* in Zig build scripts, getOutputPath() is no longer a valid function
to call, unless setOutputDir() was used, or within a custom make()
function. Instead there is more convenient API to use which takes
advantage of the caching system. Search this commit diff for
`exe.run()` for an example.
* Zig build by default enables caching. All build artifacts will go
into zig-cache. If you want to access build artifacts in a convenient
location, it is recommended to add an `install` step. Otherwise
you can use the `run()` API mentioned above to execute programs
directly from their location in the cache. Closes#330.
`addSystemCommand` is available for programs not built with Zig
build.
* Please note that Zig does no cache evicting yet. You may have to
manually delete zig-cache directories periodically to keep disk
usage down. It's planned for this to be a simple Least Recently
Used eviction system eventually.
* `--output`, `--output-lib`, and `--output-h` are removed. Instead,
use `--output-dir` which defaults to the current working directory.
Or take advantage of `--cache on`, which will print the main output
path to stdout, and the other artifacts will be in the same directory
with predictable file names. `--disable-gen-h` is available when
one wants to prevent .h file generation.
* `@cImport` is always independently cached now. Closes#2015.
It always writes the generated Zig code to disk which makes debug
info and compile errors better. No more "TODO: remember C source
location to display here"
* Fix .d file parsing. (Fixes the MacOS CI failure)
* Zig no longer creates "temporary files" other than inside a
zig-cache directory.
This breaks the CLI API that Godbolt uses. The suggested new invocation
can be found in this commit diff, in the changes to `test/cli.zig`.
closes#2024
there's a new cli option `--main-pkg-path` which you can use to choose
a different root package directory besides the one inferred from the
root source file
and a corresponding build.zig API:
foo.setMainPkgPath(path)
* CLI: `-target [name]` instead of `--target-*` args.
This matches clang's API.
* `builtin.Environ` renamed to `builtin.Abi`
- likewise `builtin.environ` renamed to `builtin.abi`
* stop hiding the concept of sub-arch. closes#1526
* `zig targets` only shows available targets. closes#438
* include all targets in readme, even those that don't
print with `zig targets` but note they are Tier 4
* refactor target.cpp and make the naming conventions
more consistent
* introduce the concept of a "default C ABI" for a given
OS/Arch combo. As a rule of thumb, if the system compiler
is clang or gcc then the default C ABI is the gnu ABI.
New CLI parameter: --c-source [options] [file]
It even works with `--cache on` when there are transitive dependencies.
Instead of `builder.addCExecutable`, use `builder.addExecutable` and pass
`null` for the root source file. Then use `builder.addCSourceFile`,
which takes the path to the C code, and a list of C compiler args.
Be sure to linkSystemLibrary("c") if you want libc headers to be
available.
Merge TestStep into LibExeObjStep. That was long overdue.
* When you do field access of a type which only has one possible
value, the result is comptime-known.
* StorePtr instructions which operate on pointers to types which
only have one possible value, the result is a comptime no-op.
closes#1554
* Separate LoadPtr IR instructions into pass1 and pass2 variants.
* Define `type_size_bits` for extern structs to be the same as
their `@sizeOf(T) * 8` and allow them in packed structs.
* More helpful error messages when trying to use types in
packed structs that are not allowed.
* Support arrays in packed structs even when they are not
byte-aligned.
* Add compile error for using arrays in packed structs when the
padding bits would be problematic. This is necessary since
we do not have packed arrays.
closes#677
* `type_size_store` is no longer a thing. loading and storing a pointer
to a value may dereference up to `@sizeOf(T)` bytes, even for
integers such as `u24`.
* fix `types_have_same_zig_comptime_repr` to not think that the
same `ZigTypeId` means the `ConstExprValue` neccesarily has the
same representation.
* implement `buf_write_value_bytes` and `buf_read_value_bytes` for
`ContainerLayoutPacked`
closes#1120
* also fix extern variables with initialiaztion values to generate runtime code
* remove the workaround in example/shared_library/mathtest.zig
* introduce the ability for global variables to have Weak and LinkOnce
linkage
* fix `@export` to work for non-functions. this code needs to be
audited though.
* fix comptime ptrcast not keeping bigger alignment
* fix linker warnings when targeting darwin
closes#1903
Previously, if a dereference instruction was an lvalue, it would fail to
typecheck that the value being dereferenced was indeed a pointer.
Although a little clunky, this change obviates the need for redundant
type checks scattered about the analysis.
this adds the prototype of panic to @import("builtin")
and then uses it to do an implicit cast of the panic
function to this prototype, rather than redoing all the
implicit cast logic.
closes#1894closes#1895
* Fixes breaches of the guarantee that `@sizeOf(T) >= @alignOf(T)`
* Fixes std.mem.secureZero for integers where this guarantee previously
was breached
* Fixes std.mem.Allocator for integers where this guarantee previously
was breached
Closes#1851Closes#1864
It's still best practice to put `@setEvalBranchQuota` at the top of
the comptime stack, but as Jimmi notes in #1949, when a function
can be called at comptime and also can be the top of the comptime stack,
this compile error is fundamentally unsound.
So now it's gone.
closes#1949
There's an unfortunate footgun in the current design of error sets.
The debug info type for every error set is the same as the debug info
type of the global error set, which is essentially an enum forward
declaration. The problem is that when we "replace" the forward
declaration with the final value, once we know all the possible errors,
we have to update the pointers of every error set.
So the footgun is that if you ever copy the debug info type of the
global error set, you have to add the address of the pointer to a list
of pointers that need to be updated once we "replace" the forward
declaration. I activated the footgun when I introduced the optimization
that `?anyerror` types are the same size as `anyerror` types (using 0 as
the null value), because I introduced a pointer copy of the global error
set debug info type, but forgot to add it to the list.
I'm sure that there is a better way to code this, which does not have
the footgun, but this commit contains only a fix, not a reworking of the
logic.
closes#1937
Previously, std.debug.assert would `@panic` in test builds,
if the assertion failed. Now, it's always `unreachable`.
This makes release mode test builds more accurately test
the actual code that will be run.
However this requires tests to call `std.testing.expect`
rather than `std.debug.assert` to make sure output is correct.
Here is the explanation of when to use either one, copied from
the assert doc comments:
Inside a test block, it is best to use the `std.testing` module
rather than assert, because assert may not detect a test failure
in ReleaseFast and ReleaseSafe mode. Outside of a test block, assert
is the correct function to use.
closes#1304
* zig fmt
* std.mem.join takes a slice of slices instead of var args
* std.mem.join takes a separator slice rather than byte,
and always inserts it. Previously it would not insert the separator
if there already was one, violating the documented behavior.
* std.mem.join calculates exactly the correct amount to allocate
and has no call to allocator.shrink()
* bring back joinWindows and joinPosix and the corresponding tests.
it is intended to be able to call these functions from any OS.
* rename std.os.path.resolveSlice to resolve (now resolve takes
a slice of slices instead of var args)
this should actually improve CI times a bit too
See the description at the top of std/os/startup.zig (deleted in this
commit) for a more detailed understanding of what this commit does.
`std.mem.Allocator.createOne` is renamed to `std.mem.Allocator.create`.
The problem with the previous API is that even after copy elision,
the initalization value passed as a parameter would always be a copy.
With the new API, once copy elision is done, initialization
functions can directly initialize allocated memory in place.
Related:
* #1872
* #1873
closes#1764
This adds another boolean to the test matrix; hopefully it does not
inflate the time too much.
std.event.Loop does not work with this option yet. See #1908
Previously, it pointed to the start of the current token, but this made
it difficult to tell where the error occurred when it was, say, in the
middle of a string.
Andrew Kelley
Sahnvour
LemonBoy
emekoi
Matthew McAllister
Jimmi Holst Christensen